International Negotiations

30 September 2010: The proposed agenda, annotated agenda and draft work programme for the 57th meeting of the Executive Board of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), scheduled to take place from 12-14 October 2010, in Bonn, Germany, are now available on the CDM website.

25 September 2010: Ambassador Patricia Espinosa, Secretary of Foreign Relations of Mexico and incoming President of this year's UN Conferences on Climate Change, addressed the Ministerial Consultation on Climate Change and the Cancun Conferences, which took place on 25 September in New York, US.

30 September 2010: The UNFCCC Secretariat has published a submission (FCCC/AWGLCA/2010/MISC.7) from the World Health Organization (WHO) under ideas and proposals on the elements contained in paragraph 1 of the Bali Action Plan.

29 September 2010: The General Debate of the 65th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) concluded on 29 September 2010, in New York, US, with Assembly President Joseph Deiss (Switzerland) underlining that many speakers had addressed the risks associated with climate change, including the loss of biodiversity, and reiterated the need for more efforts to address those challenges head on.

29 September 2010: The September issue of the UNFCCC Newsletter focuses on the last climate change negotiating session before the 16th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC in Cancun, Mexico, at the end of 2010.

28 September 2010: As the UN General Assembly's (UNGA) annual high-level debate continued on 28 September 2010, developing countries representatives urged greater global support in responding to climate change.

28 September 2010: The third South Africa-EU Summit, which was held in Brussels, Belgium, on 27-28 September 2010, resulted in a Joint Communiqué that addresses, among other issues, the international climate change negotiations.

27 September 2010: As the UN General Assembly (UNGA) continued its annual general debate in New York, US, leaders of small island developing States (SIDS) underscored that they were unable to tackle alone the challenges posed by climate change, making it vital for the international community to develop a coordinated approach to this issue.

24 September 2010: The UNFCCC Secretariat has published a submission from Peru (FCCC/AWGLCA/2010/MISC.6) on preparation of an outcome to be presented for adoption to the 16th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 16) to enable the full, effective and sustained implementation of the Convention through long-term cooperative action now, up to and beyond 2012.

21 September 2010: The eighth meeting at the leaders' representative level of the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate took place in New York, US, from 20-21 September 2010, and was attended by officials from the 17 major economies, as well as the UN, Barbados, Denmark, Egypt, Singapore and Spain.